USS Charrette

The USS Charrette was a US Navy destroyer that was launched on 3 June 1942 from the Boston Navy Yard in Massachusetts and commissioned on 18 May 1943. She was named for Spanish-American War hero George Charrette, and she spent her career in the Pacific theater of World War II, screening carriers during the Mariana Islands campaign and later fighting at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the preparations for the Battle of Peleliu, and the invasion of the Philippines. On 16 June 1959, she was transferred to the navy of Greece, and she was decommissioned in 1991 to become a museum ship at Palaio Faliro in the Athens agglomeration.